MEET THE TEAM
Rita Leduc
Creator, Co-Founder, Executive Director
GW Process Leadership: Rita asks, “What are you doing in the world and how do you and that fit in relationship with the world?”
Rita Leduc is a synesthetic sensor and hallway dweller whose whose creative practice stretches across an intertwining gradient of personal, interpersonal, and societal sectors. In all of her work, Leduc’s process is one of listening, absorption, participation, and becoming to uncover pathways of understanding and possibility. Across this gradient, Leduc has taught, shown and communicated her work internationally. Recent examples include Oika collaborations, Extending Ecology and Cause and Affection. She is a member of The PLACE Collective and teaches in Rutgers University’s program, Creative Expression and the Environment. Past exhibitions, courses, and events have been at the Museum of the White Mountains (NH), Syracuse University (NY), The Nature of Cities Festival (Berlin), The Zimmerli Art Museum (NJ), The Cognitive Science Show, Art.Earth’s conference, “Sentient Performativities: Thinking Alongside the Human” (Dartington Hall, UK), Stand4 Gallery (NY), Mount Saint Mary College (NY), Maria Mitchell Association (MA), Governors Island (NYC), and Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC), among others. Leduc has received support from NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, Atlas Obscura, Oika, Broto, and Rutgers University, among others. Publications include Signal House Edition, Artis Natura, unpsychology magazine (“An Anthology of Warm Data”), and Dartington Trust’s “Arts + Ecology” podcast. Leduc received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Chris Bodwitch
Director of Relational Play
GW Connective Processing: Chris asks, “What is going on inside of you and how does that relate to what you’re doing in the world?”
Bodwitch has been performing, teaching and choreographing modern, improvisational dance and physical theater for almost 3 decades. Her first creation was Rhombus Dance, a company dedicated to the experimentation of objects, moving bodies and the scientific process. Then, after participating in an intensive performance program at the Dell' Arte International in Blue Lake, CA, she fell in love with theatrical, european-style clown. She went on to study with Kendall Cornell and joined Clowns ExMachina, an all-women clown troupe in NYC. Currently, she runs a performance and (re)learning lab called Muck and Gold and uses her certification as a Dynamic Emotional Integration Coach to integrate clown, dance and the language of our emotions for healing.
Clara DeAngelo
Executive Chef (Retreats)
Formerly an associate casting director for networks such as ABC, NBC, Amazon, and A&E, DeAngelo left show business to transform her passion into her career. After graduating at the top of her class at the International Culinary Center (formally The French Culinary Institute), she founded @taste.as.i.go and joined GROUNDWORK as resident Executive Chef. Her cooking style is elevated and elegant with a hearty, home-cooked backbone: rustic chic.
Patricia Brace
Co-Founder, Co-Director (2014-2019)
Raised in Cherryfield, Maine, Brace is a performance artist whose work addresses the relationship between intersectional feminism and politics through her use of dance, new media and installation. Brace currently teaches at University of Maine at Augusta and College of the Atlantic and formerly taught at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Brace recently exhibited at The Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, This Friday Next Friday Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and Tête Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Brace's work has also been shown at Gary Snyder Project Space and SOHO 20 in New York and Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Smack Mellon, Public Address Gallery and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn. Brace has attended The Studios at MASS MoCA, Solo(s) Project House, and Vermont Studio Center. She is the recipient of the Professional Development Grant, Giza Daniels Endesha Award, the Ray Stark Film Prize, and the Leon Golub Scholarship.